From the viewpoint of Elizabeth Wilson-lady's maid, Margaret Forster retells the love story of Robert and Elizabeth Browning-enthralling
Daily Telegraph

Compulsively readable-at each climax of the story, from the Browning's runaway romance to her own equally compromised and complicated marriage, the lady's maid speaks directly and at the last most movingly
Guardian

Passion, melodrama, pathos-and a happy ending. What more can you ask for?
Daily Mail

Movingly told-Wilson's pleasures, losses and disappointments in love are complicated and excellently understated, imagined as a contrast to the grand passions she has to serve
Times Literary Supplement

Accomplished, beautifully written-packed with discreet domestic detail
Financial Times

Fact and fiction are skilfully interwoven-beautifully done
Evening Standard